Is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Missing A Big Opportunity?

July 11, 2014 6:46 PM

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Turtles. Teenage Ones. Mutant ninjas at that. We can only imagine what was being smoked by the comic book artists who first conceived of the idea exactly 30 years ago, long before the legalization of such things was sweeping the country. Surely, when Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird hatched the concept, they could never have dreamed it would spawn a three-decade run of comic books, television shows, figurines, video games, movies, breakfast cereals, and even a concert tour.

On August 8, the reptilian franchise will debut its fifth feature film, potentially snagging an entirely new generation of young fans, while appealing to the nostalgic geek-dom of GenXers who flocked to theaters in 1990 for the first installment. Some older fans of TMNT aren't taking the bait but ma...